Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 329 in Co. Tipperary.
The median home sold for €183,900, 3.7 times the town’s median household income. 15% of adults are graduates. The median home sold for €183,900 from 2023 to 2025. Public transport, bikes and feet take just over one in ten commuters to work.
Bansha is too small to grade: Irish towns get subject grades from 1,000 residents.
The 3 things Bansha does most differently from other towns.
6 archaeological sites are on the record here too.
9% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3% in the median of Irish towns.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bansha.
The EPA estimates that 1.9% of homes in Bansha are above the radon reference level. Landslides: none of Bansha lies in a high-susceptibility zone. Only a handful of its homes, if any, sit low beside water.
| Share of homes | Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low-lying near a river | 0% | 5.9% | 0.5% |
| In high-radon areas | 0% | 0% | 0% |
EPA radon map, GSI landslide susceptibility and our low-lying homes estimate from OPW LiDAR.
January nights bottom out at 2.5°C in Bansha, higher than Co. Tipperary’s towns (2.3°C) yet lower than Irish towns (2.9°C). This Co. Tipperary town is 0.3°C warmer over the year than in 1981–2010. The annual mean locally is 10.3°C.
| Climate, 1991–2020 | Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 20.1°C | 19.8°C | 19.9°C |
| January low | 2.5°C | 2.3°C | 2.9°C |
| Rain a year | 1,034 mm | 1,037 mm | 937 mm |
| Average temperature over the year | 10.3°C | 10.1°C | 10.3°C |
Met Éireann, 1991–2020 averages.
83% of Bansha’s residents described their health as good or very good at the census, below Co. Tipperary’s towns (86%) and Irish towns (88%) alike. Weighed against its ages, bad health locally runs at 129 per 100 expected. A disability affects 33% of people locally.
| Census 2022 | Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| With a disability | 33% | 25% | 22% |
| Good or very good health | 83% | 86% | 88% |
| Bad or very bad health | 2.6% | 2.6% | 2% |
| Unpaid carers | 5.8% | 5.7% | 5.4% |
CSO, Census 2022 general health, disability and carers · CSO life expectancy by region, 2016 · HSE medical cards, 2024 · TownRatings age-standardised ratios
63% of households own their home, higher than Co. Tipperary’s towns (55%) and near Irish towns (61%).
| Housing | Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | €184K | €225K | €350K |
| Households owning their home | 63% | 55% | 61% |
| Households renting privately | 18% | 23% | 22% |
| Households in social housing | 18% | 18% | 13% |
Property Price Register · CSO residential prices by Eircode area · RTB rents · CSO, Census 2022 tenure · The price is for the postcode area E34, not the town alone: too few sales inside the town carry a full address.
A short walk to green space: 100% of homes, higher than both Co. Tipperary’s towns (83%) and Irish towns (92%). Green space comes to 11.1 ha for every 1,000 people in Bansha. 4 waymarked trails and greenways begin within 5 km.
| Outdoors | Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland within 1 km | 10% | 2.8% | 2.7% |
| Near a park | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| Green space per 1,000 residents | 11.1 ha | 3.2 ha | 4.1 ha |
| Paths per km² of town | 0.4 km per km² | 0.5 km per km² | 2.1 km per km² |
OpenStreetMap parks and paths, NPWS protected sites and the National Trails Register.
Only a trace of rain is due today, on a breeze of up to 21 km/h, with a low of 7°C. Rain peaks later in the week on Tuesday, at about 3 mm for the day. A typical November day reaches 11°C and drops to 4°C at night: the forecast for Bansha is set against that.
| Season | High | Low | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | 9°C | 3°C | 306 mm |
| Spring | 14°C | 5°C | 214 mm |
| Summer | 20°C | 11°C | 211 mm |
| Autumn | 14°C | 7°C | 304 mm |
Forecast: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0) · normals: Met Éireann, 1991–2020
The average household earns €49,210 a year before tax. Commutes averaged 28.8 min, above both Co. Tipperary’s towns (23.4 min) and Irish towns (27.6 min). Unemployment stands at 11%.
| Census 2022 | Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| In work, 15 to 64 | 60% | 67% | 68% |
| Average trip | 28.8 min | 23.4 min | 27.6 min |
| Trips under 15 minutes | 31% | 49% | 31% |
| Unemployment rate | 11% | 9.7% | 9.2% |
CSO, Census 2022 travel to work, work and education · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · Live Register · Census day was 3 April 2022, with working from home still common; shares are of those who travelled.
0.3% speak Irish daily outside school, about level with Co. Tipperary’s towns (0.8%) and below Irish towns (1.1%). Born abroad: 16% of residents. Aged 15 to 24: just over one in ten residents.
50.2% of Bansha’s residents are women
165 women and 164 men live here; across Ireland, women are 50.6%.
| Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 19% | 20% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 28% | 29% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 24% | 24% |
| 65+ | 18% | 15% | 14% |
| Primary or none | 12% | 12% | 9.7% |
| Lower secondary | 23% | 17% | 14% |
| Leaving Cert | 45% | 40% | 35% |
| Diploma or cert | 4.1% | 5.8% | 5.8% |
| Degree or higher | 15% | 24% | 36% |
CSO, Census 2022 · Co. Tipperary and Ireland: the median of their towns of 2,500+
Bansha answers to one council, Tipperary County Council; Ireland has no town tier. Tipperary County Council has no ruling majority: Independent hold 14 of its 40 seats, short of the 21 needed. Also worth knowing: it sits in the Cashel-Tipperary local electoral area, which elects 7 councillors.
| Turnout | Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local elections, June 2024 | 53% | 56% | 46% |
| General election, November 2024 | 61% | 61% | 59% |
Department of Housing count sheets, 2024
8.9% of its homes were built before 1919, above Co. Tipperary’s towns (7.1%) and Irish towns (3.4%) alike. There are 6 entries on the national archaeological record here.
| Heritage | Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inventory buildings per 10,000 residents | 182 | 126 | 48 |
| Homes built before 1919 | 8.9% | 7.1% | 3.4% |
| Archaeological sites on the record | 6 | 26 | 11 |
NIAH, the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Sites and Monuments Record · CSO, Census 2022 homes by year built
One school lies within 3 km of Bansha. 75 pupils attend the one school within 3 km of the town.
| School | Level | Pupils | Ethos |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bansha N.S. DEISLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 75 | Catholic |
| Schools within 3 km | Bansha | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| In the DEIS scheme | 100% | 50% | 35% |
| Teach through Irish | 0% | 8% | 8% |
Department of Education school lists, 2025/26 (preliminary) · no results are published by school · Ireland doesn’t publish results for individual schools, so none of these carries a letter.
Nothing to visit is mapped within 5 km of Bansha; these are the best known within 40 km.
CastleRock of Cashel14 km northeast
Castle · Office of Public WorksCahir Castle12 km southeast
Abbey or prioryAthassel Priory6.6 km northeast
Abbey or prioryHore Abbey14 km northeast
CathedralCathedral of the Assumption, Thurles31 km northeast
Abbey or priory · Office of Public WorksSt. Dominic's Abbey14 km northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Bansha’s built heritage counts 6 inventory entries, each of regional standing. 6 recorded monuments and archaeological sites lie here.
9 notable people were born in Bansha.
The nearest places of 1,000 or more. Boundaries: Tailte Éireann, CSO Urban Areas 2022 and Electoral Divisions.
82% of working residents drive to work and 11% walk, cycle or take the bus or train (the median of Irish towns: 23%). 7% mostly work from home, and 31% of journeys take under 15 minutes.
Bansha had 329 people at the 2022 census, up from 320 in 2016: 2.8% more, against 7.6% in the median of Irish towns.
The median age in Bansha is 41.2, against 37.6 in the median of Irish towns.
Urban area in Co. Tipperary
329 people live in Bansha, in the area of Tipperary County Council. TownRatings uses the CSO’s 2022 Urban Areas as Ireland’s towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a county or a council area, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from Tailte Éireann’s boundaries and the CSO’s Census 2022 (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: CSO, Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · Tailte Éireann, Urban Areas and Electoral Divisions 2022 (CC BY 4.0). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).